Month: June 2013

Ah, summer is getting closer. The Beer season. It seems like a number of developers are more or less on vacation, since the activity in the last week was kind of… moderate. Wait, did I mention that PtitSeb released FreeSpace 1 and 2? That’s just 2 releases but that has to count for something! There were few updates, though, but the few we got include worthy games such as OpenXcom, Widelands and apkenv now supporting Plants vs Zombies! But there’s more. Read on.

You know what’s cool? One Million Dollars. You know what’s even better? The Pandora community, with its users spread over the face of the Earth. Since Pandoralive has been running for more than 3 months now, there’s enough data to get an idea where you guys are reading us from. That can also give you an idea of how active the Pandora community in your country may be. Let’s see…

If you have a Pandora and follow the repo news actively you must have noticed that _wb_ (of Pandora Microbes fame) has recently released his new game called Pandora NubNub! A very simple game at its core, but nonetheless very enjoyable and challenging at the same time, with Compo4All support to spice it up. Let’s have a deeper look at this and how it first came to be.

Recently there was an interesting post on the boards, focusing on a simple question: “what was the moment you realized how awesome the Pandora is?” If you are still wondering if you should get a Pandora, this may provide interesting insights about what makes the Pandora worth it. So here’s a quick repost.

Another month has passed and we enter “summer”. Yeah, I’m sure you appreciate the irony if you are in one of the numerous countries where it still feels like winter and you get nothing but rain everyday. So much for “global warming” huh? Anyway, here’s a short overview of which articles on Pandoralive managed to grab your attention over the past 30 days.

The past week has been relatively calm for updates and releases. Don’t worry, there’s still enough to keep you busy for a while, but it’s nothing like last few weeks’ overdoses. Now is a good time to catch up and enjoy all the great stuff that’s been released recently. Especially if the weather is as crap as they say at your location.

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GiantPockets (Previously Known as Pandoralive.info) is a blog dedicated to the Pocket Linux Handheld computers (such as the Open Pandora and the upcoming DragonBox Pyra, but also non-gaming handhelds like the GPD Pocket). These handhelds can be used for gaming but for a bunch of serious uses as they can run full Linux distributions and are typically equipped with physical keyboards. You will find here news regarding their latest software offering, hardware updates, development stories and testimonies of users.